TAR's final ratings for each episode will now include any viewers who watch the TVGN repeats on Saturdays.

Do we know that for sure? I thought the "3 day" rule might take precedence here. I was actually thinking that offering another way to watch later could actually HURT our ratings for "first watch".

CBS did count the repeat airing viewers on the two instances where they repeated episodes, and during the part season the CW repeated episodes one season (season 6 I think) so it seems logical that they would get the TVGN numberf.

Here's the ratings from last night. TAR did get crushed by the Oscars, but it wasn't any worse than last week. In facts, that had a million more viewers but their rating was unchanged. It can only get better from here. From http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/:

On ABC, The Oscars earned a preliminary 12.1 adults 18-49 rating from 8:30-11PM, even with last year's preliminary 12.1, though given that the show ran over an hour over, expect adjustments in the final ratings. Your predictions were too optimistic. The Oscars Red Carpet Special garnered a 5.3 at 7PM up 6 percent from last year's preliminary 5.0, a 6.8 at 7:30 up 1 percent from last year's preliminary 6.7 and a 9.1 at 8PM down 1 percent from last year’s preliminary 9.2.

Could someone please enlighten this European? What does the rating and share mean?And why Leafsfan said (regarding the premiere) that only around 5 mil tuned in to watch, but wikipedia says 6.71 mil viewers?

Could someone please enlighten this European? What does the rating and share mean?And why Leafsfan said (regarding the premiere) that only around 5 mil tuned in to watch, but wikipedia says 6.71 mil viewers?

As I understand it, the rating is the is the percent of all television households that are watching the show. The share is the percentage of all households that actually have their TV turned on that are watching the show. Since many homes aren't watching their TV at a given time, the share is always higher than the rating. I hope someone will correct me if this is wrong.

As for the difference in the viewing numbers, 5 million was the initial number reported last Monday. I expect that the 6.71 million number is what it ended up at after people watched the recorded version from their DVRs. It may count online viewership as well. I'm not sure about that.

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I hardly saw any advertising for this season on TV. My mom and sisters are faithful viewers and I had to tell them on Sunday that it was on. They had no idea a new season was starting. I think there were so many factors that lead to the low ratings. Hopefully they will get better.

I apologize for the formatting, but it would take a long time to get it to line up and I don't have the time for that right now. Before you ask, I don't know why our ratings were similar to The Simpsons when we had 2.5 time the number of eyeballs. Probably it means The Simpsons viewers are under 49 and TAR has a lot of older viewers.

CBS is not putting a lot of weight on overnight ratings these days. They're far more interested in plus three, plus seven and plus 30 (days) with time shifted viewing as well as alternate platform viewing for the eyeballs.

All the broadcast nets are seeing far lower overnight numbers than they used to. When the weekly numbers come out tomorrow, take a look at where TAR is in relation to the Top 25/30 shows on broadcast nets. That has more meaning than the raw numbers in the total audience or the demographic.

A 1.9 for the Amazing Race is fine, it's already beating quite a few other CBS shows this week including Person of Interest in the 18-49 demo. It won't be any danger as long as it stays as close to 2.0 as possible.

It'll still have a 2 season cycle per year with these numbers. The producers will likely not bother with an 'All stars' for a while and focus more on new racers to try and rebuild what they once had ratings wise.

SURVIVOR SURVIVOR (9.66m) was first in adults 25-54 (3.4/09) and adults 18-49 (2.5/08), beating “American Idol Wednesday” in their common hour for the first time ever in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49, while finishing in its closest competitive position in viewers for the second consecutive week. Compared to last week, SURVIVOR was up +3% in adults 25-54 (from 3.3/09), +4% in adults 18-49 (from 2.4/08) and added +80,000 viewers (from 9.58m, +1%).

Details for TAR were not given, but note that TAR was only 1.36 million viewers behind. So all of you need to find ...say 1,000 new friends to watch?

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